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Established in 1994, Chain D.L.K. is one of the longest-running and biggest online music communities for electronic, industrial, ambient, dark, experimental and new music. Daily updated news, reviews, interviews and community message boards to stay up to date on what’s going on…

WRITERS / CONTRIBUTORS WANTED

Chain D.L.K. is looking for RELIABLE AND ENTHUSIASTIC WRITERS interested in writing CD/vinyl/digital reviews and possibly doing interviews. Chain D.L.K. is a non-for-profit entity so this position is not paid, however you may keep or re-sell the CDs, vinyl and tapes that we send you for review. We need people who LOVE MUSIC and are PASSIONATE about music and who enjoy writing about it. We’ve been doing it since 1994 but it’s getting harder and harder to keep up with the volume of releases and we are trying to support everyone in this great scene! Contact Marc Ursellifromthe Contact Pageif you are interested. Thank you

Founded in 1988, The Cascades are a Gothic/Post Punk Rock band from Germany. Their style is old-school goth (think Sisters of Mercy) with a modern, artistic sensibility. Over the years they’ve gone through some personnel changes but the band now consists of M. W. Wild – vocals; Morientes de Silva – guitar; and Markus Muller […]

Having emerged during the no-wave era, Melbourne-born hyperactive singer, composer, and producer JG Thirlwell recently forged a new moniker – Xordox (his debut “Neospection” appeared on the excellent catalog of Edition Mego this year) – and added it to the impressive list of his multifaceted musical personalities. Some of you might know other ones such as […]

Mostly known as the drummer and the percussionist of the appreciated band The Necks, Tony Buck recently dropped a solo-release ‘Unearth’ on Lawrence English’s label Room40. Better-informed music lovers know that Tony’s activity is much more widespread over the contemporary scene: he extensively played, toured and performed with well-respected projects/musicians such as The EX, Jon […]

Some of the recent releases by Marc Kate (the self-released “Despairer” and the more recent “Deface” – you can check them on Marc’s bandcamp Failing Forms together with other older releases – as well as a forthcoming release on Yann Novak‘s imprint Dragon’s Eye, whimsically titled “As If We Were Never Here”), which landed on my desk, […]

We recently had an in-depth conversation with Canadian electro-acoustic composer Paul Dolden, following the review of his recent output “Histoires d’histoire” on empreintes DIGITALes. You’ll understand the reason why his musical production – focusing both on harmonic and tonal research as well as on the superimposition and juxtaposition of different music styles – deserves to […]

On September 8th, Sofamusic released Lieber Heiland, Laß uns Sterben, a very interesting output by Swedish jazz and improv saxophonist and composer Martin Küchen. The author wrote some introductory reflections on it: “On Lieber Heiland, Laß uns Sterben historical events intersect right into the contemporary sound making, slit through their titles sharp cuts in […]

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It-Clings: "When words become a weapon" This description hits the nail for the Canadian Spoken-word artist It-Clings, from which the most of you have heard of through his collaborations with Fractured and/or Pneumatic Detach. It-Clings is the verbal outfit of Squid, a guy who runs also the Ind...

Loup:
Loup's style could be roughly defined as "sonic art/jazz", but any which way you label it is going to be an an approximation of what this Lyon-based French duo, made up of Clement Edouard (sax, electronics) and Sheik Anorak (drums, electronics), manages to squeeze out of so-called "free jazz". Pe...

Asseptic Room: The US-label DSBP (www.dsbp.cx) has lately signed with Asseptic Room another trouper to take the international Electro/Industrial scene by storm. This Spanish solo project consists of Carlos Ruiz, who was a few years before a constant member of the nowadays well known act Dioxy...

Alexandr Vatagin:
Five years after his last full-length album "Shards", the talented Ukranian composer Alexandr Vatagin - member of Tupolev and Port-Royal, founder of Quarz project and former collaborator of renowned musicians such as Stefan nemeth (Lokai), B.Fleischmann, Philippe Petit (Strings Of Consciousness), ...

Winterbrief:
Chain D.L.K.: What are your plans?
Winterbrief: Winterbrief is on an extended break. Please visit our site: www. winterbrief. com or Heartcore Records to find out more information on our last album "Tickets for a Peek" which was released in late 2003.
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Writers Wanted

Chain D.L.K. is looking for RELIABLE AND ENTHUSIASTIC WRITERS interested in writing reviews and possibly doing interviews.
Chain D.L.K. is a non-for-profit entity so this position is not paid, however you will receive lots of CDs that you can keep or re-sell.
We need people who LOVE MUSIC and are PASSIONATE about music and who enjoy writing about it.
Contact Marc Urselli form the Contact Page if you are interested.
Thank you